| TCI develops complete communications strategies, architectures,
and network designs to serve broad business needs. Strategic plans
include determination of the most effective use of owned and leased
facilities and carrier network services, as well as, System 7 Signaling
and ISDN capabilities. Comprehensive systems engineering packages
provide complete specifications for carrier network interfaces and
technical specifications for transmission, multiplex, switching, information
management and network management systems. TCI performs feasibility
studies on various applications, such as IP telephony, which take
advantage of the rapid spread of IP based networks.
TCI develops communications strategies to meet broadly defined,
long-range corporate objectives, while serving short-term communications
needs efficiently and cost-effectively. Strategic plans go beyond
an extrapolation of the customer's current communications needs,
exploring and evaluating the potential role of communications as
a competitive mechanism to serve the customer's business plan.
In a typical project, TCI works with the customer to develop and
document a set of mutually defined project objectives, to include
an evaluation of the role of communications in the customer's strategic
plan. Depending on the nature of the client's business, TCI works
with telecommunications and information management staff in order
to identify existing communications applications, systems, and services.
The marketing and strategic planning staff provides input to define
future communication needs arising from new products, or expected
changes in operations and business strategies.
TCI develops a model of client communication and information management
needs, representing a consistent set of requirements as alternative
systems and architectures are considered and evaluated.
For clients whose products and services are strongly dependent
on communications, the model may also provide a valuable tool for
evaluation of business strategies.
The modeling technique permits TCI and the client to formulate
and evaluate a complete picture of communications requirements,
identifying how current applications can best be served in the future,
and defining new applications that will be required to serve the
client's business plan. It permits TCI engineers and consultants
to develop integrated solutions in which various applications may
be served efficiently through a single, well-defined system architecture.
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